The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-22 00:00:00

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent -garden. Last Night but Six. era, in three rroduction of Meye rbeer's g rand historical op act , , L'Etolle Du Nord, It will be remembered that this chef d'ceuvre of the great composer was produced in the latter part of the season 1835. It had only been performed on seven occasions when the calamitous burning of the old theatre took place, entirely consuming the immense mass of materiel so lately prepared for its r epresentation. It may therefore almost be regarded as a new work in this country. Soace eat the erectiof on of the erb peerre sent theatre, four out of the five works Mey have been reproduced—viz., Les lim.4uenots, Le Prophete, Dinorah, and Roberto it Diavolo. The fifth—viz., L'ETO ILE DTI NORD, will be produced TO-MORROW EVEN ING (Saturday), July 23, with entirely new scenery, costumes, and appointments. On Vas occasion the opera will commence at 8 o'clock. Catterina, Madame MiolaT,Carvalho, her first appearance in that ( haracter, and her first appearance this se,s.in ; rras covia, Mdlie. Maria Brunetti, her first appearance at the Royal Italian ( ipera ; Natalia, Madame Ruciersdorff ; Echi mona, Millie. Jenny Bauer, her first appearance this seas n ; Dant lowitz, Signor Naudin, his first appearance in that character ; Giorgio, Signor Neri-Baraldi ; Gritzenko, Signor 'Ciampi, his first appesrance in that character ; Coouellr ec a uoloff, Signor T. gliafico ; General Tchereinetieff, Signor 1-' olonini ; Rainoldo, Signor Capponi ; a sma ilotl, Signor Lucc hesi ; I.lfticiale Primo, Signor l'allai ; Utliciale Secondo, Signor Rossi : and Pietro, M. Yaure, his first appearance in that Lharacter in England. Conductor, Mr. Costa. The scenery by Mr. W. Beverley. The machinery by Mr. H. Sloe an. 'the appointments by Mr. Brunton The cos tumes by Mrs. James, M 'dame Vailet, es and M. The Mis-en-Scene Hennier. The dances by M. Desplanes by Mr. A. Harris. .Ptt tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre stals, 10s. 6d., 75., and 59, ; amphitheatre. 2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the box-ofnce under the portico ot the theatre, which is op.en from ten till live, and at. the principal musiosellers' and librarians'. _ ,--... ,•-... PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-... Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING• BORN TO GOOD LUCK'. Paddy O'lzafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which. the new p:ay by John Oxenford, Egg THE MONASTERY OF Sr. JL Sr : 3lessrs. Vining, 11. 'Mars ton J. Nelson, J. W. Ray, H. Mellon, W. Robins Seyton, 11 ,; pma n ; Mrs. IL Marston, and Mdlle . Stella kolas. TAEA RE-R 0 YAL, sole Prooristor and llsnazer. Mr. B. Webster. - 1- 1 // s EVENING, SHAKSPERE'S HOUSE. Mr. J. L. 'Toole, 3 1r. R. Phillips. After which, JANET PRIDE : Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stuart, Stephenson, Homer ; Miss Woolgar, jMiss Denman. Followed by THE AREA BELLE, with a Norrible Tale: Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, it. RomerMiss Woolgar, and xirs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Crowded with rank and fashion. Re.engagement of those ce ebraced and popular artistes, Mr. an , Mrs. Charles Mathews. Production of an entirely new or igin al Travestie of a very powilar subject, by F. C. Burnam', Esq., entitled FAUST ArlY) MARGUERITE, in which Mr. and Mrs Charles Mathews will appear. so The new scenery by the celebrated artist 4, Messrs. Dann and Sons ; the incidental Baaet by Osear Byrne. Amongst the artists engaged will be found the popular names or Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frank M atthews, Mr. J. L. Toole. Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Piul Bedterd, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Asilley. Mr. J. Johnstone; Miss Ihrbert,Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss H. Simms, Miss A. Cottreii, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentworta,;Mrs. Stirdng, anu Mrs. Chas. Mathews. EVER Y EVENING, at 7, A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING. Mrs. Sairhng, Mr. J. Clarke, and Mr. F. Robinson. At a quarter-Past 8, a new Travestie, entitled FAUST itaD MAEGUERITE C M hs. Mathews, Mr. J. Clarke, Ashley, Mr. Montague, r. W. H. Eburne, Mr. W. Chamberiaine, and Mrs, C. Mathews. At 10, LITTLE TODDLEKINS, Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. and Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with BRISTOL DIAMONDS. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mathews, Mr. Ash ey, Miss Wentworth. GOODWOOD —RACE GLASSES, the best at CALLAGHAN'S, 23A, New Bond-street, W., corner t Conduit-street. N.B.—Sole agent to Voigtlander, Vienna. OPERA and RACE GLASSES, Field and Yacht Glasses, in every variety off size, form, and mounting, machless for their great magnying power and sharpness of definition. Price, from 30s. each, at CALLAGHAN'S, 23.4, New Bond-street, IV., corner of Conduit-street. Sole agent for the celebrated race and field glasses and photo graphic lenees made Dy Veigtlander, Vienna. Field glasses mate excressly for India. warranted to withstand the greatest tropical heat. The new aluminium mounted glasses (as re cently made for IL 11.11. the Prince of Wales,', though of the largest size, weigh but a few ounces. COUNTRY and SEASIDE DRESSES. Messrs. JAY, of Bezent-street, have now in stock a variety of WASHING SILK DRESSES, suitable for the country and seaside, and at the c,earing-out puke of only lls. 6d. the dress. J AY' S, 247, 242, and 251, Regent-street. BLACK SILKS.—The price of Silks in the raw material has already f sen 15 per cent., and it will soon reach a far Greater per-centage. Messrs. JAY, therefore, ilvite their numerous patrons to take advantage of the stock they have on hand, which they can now dispose of on favour able terms ; but the same qualities will naturally ba more co_tly ai the price of silk fluctuates to a higher average JAY'S, 217, 249, and 251, Regent-street. COALS. —The lALLESHAL L COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 235. per ton. I Double.. 20s. per ton. Top 225. „ I Decp 2ls. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., :Lad 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and 3laiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. rfliTE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, otui be had Every Evening of G. It. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, July 22, 1864. -- - THER3IO3LETER. This day at Two o'clock 7O Barometer-29.84. WIND —S.W. ; light, and cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. DiT.—Morning, 4h. Bm.—Afternoon, 4h. 2803. To-moßßow.-51orning, 41. I;3o:6—Afternoon, sd. 12m. , ss jg _ Suns> LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1864. - 4 0. ---. The manifesto of the Confederate States comes very appropriate at this juneturo, and from its tone and sentiment it appears to be free from that jealous disposition and vehement expression which so often mar the effect of the American declarations. So much calumny has been uttered relative to the Southern States by those who should have known better, and their garbled statements have so often bewildered and taken in the ignorant and mis informed, that it seems to be a right and fitting thing for them to come forward and declare their purpose, explain their meaning, and give expression to their feelings. It is styled " Joint resolutions declarir.g the disposition of principles and purposes of the Confederate States in relation to the existing war with the United States,"and through the whole tenour of its course it keeps to the text and fulfils its promise. It sets out by stating that it is due' to the great sacrifices which have been made that the public opinion of the world be enlightened as to the nature and character of the struggle in which they are engaged, and there can be no doubt that th ere i s a mple justification for the adoption of such a course, and that many will be glad to meet with such a document, comprising as it does a summary ut the chief objects and the great aim which those belligerents have had in view from the com mencement of the struggle which has occupied the attention and riveted the notice of the world. It would manifesto to have been i m possible for this have been draw n up in a better manner—its style is vigorous and its language statesmanlike. It reflects great credit 1 ou JEFFERSON DAVIS, and is in keeping with all e have seen of his conduct from the outset of this memorable contest. The opinions herein rut forth d o not belong to any State or appertain to a particular people; they are part of tho great principles which are the heritage and property of all the nations o f the world, and mor e especially those which can claim, like th e Con federate States of America, to have had ft free ex i s tence which their fathers fought for and gained at so mu ch cost and sacrifice. Wh e th er we regard its broad outline of principles, its determined advo cacy of freedom, or its calm review o f th e events that have occurred during the war, it must appear that this enunciation is alike fair and honourable. It does not require a very great scope of fancy to picture to ourselves what terms the Federal States would have made use of had they been issuing a statement of this class or character. We should have been treated to the most extravagant assertions, the bitterest rancour, and the most vehement indignatioa relating to their opponents. On the contrary, in this manifiesto there is particular care lest offensive t erms be employed. A writer of history, w r i l i ng impartially of past transactions, could not dibcourse more quietly and, collectedly than do thesis expo nents of the obieds for which they are !struggling. In the first place it is laid down that nothing but necessity would have induced them to take up arms, and that; whenever their enemy ceases from its persecution they .will willingly accede to the proposals. for peace. This is as much as could be expected from the Congress of States that have exhibited such zeal, ardour, and patriotism in the prosecution of their purpose. " Hereditary rights and cherished institutions," are worthy of being preserved, and much as the beholding world may deplore the sad havoc and disastrous consequences of the war, all must admit that the efforts are not fruitless nor the object unworthy of the strife. Pro aris et focis is an axiom of univer sal renown, and the world as it grows old can give us no better watchword to send forth with our armies into the field, and inspire our community at home with zeal and vigilance. Every one of fore sight must be aware that the Confederates are fight ing for their existence, for their status in the world, as free citizens of independent cities, and the good wishes of all haters of tyranny and oppression go with them to their arduous encounters, and trust that the day is not far distant when a termination will be put to this fearful struggle in the only satisfactory manner that can possibly issue, and the end will crown the work which has been so assiduously performed. This Manifesto is another proof that the Confederates have displayed of their partaking far more than their rivals of the genuine Anglo-Saxon sentiments. Not alone have these been exhibited by their dauntless bravery, but by their indomitable spirit, which reverses could not quell nor disparity of numbers affect. It is also in their moderation in writing and speaking that we recognise the germs of that calmness and reticence which, as much as our arms, have made us mighty, and given strength to our councils, and effect to our representations. The truth put for ward in this declaration cannot be gainsaid, and years of fighting have attested to the veracity of the assertion, that the world must see that eight millions of people in so large a territory, with so many and such varied resources, and animated with such a spirit of resistance, cannot be conquered. This is so evident that it is alike distressing and irritating to find the fact wilfully ignored by the Federals, the sharpest among whom must have re cognised the utter fallaciousness of their task long before this. Perhaps the most effective passage here met with:is the one which denounces the attempt made by the invaders to transfer states and indepen dent citizens as though they were rebellious subjects. This is emphatically designated as a "solecism in terms, as well as an outrage on the principles of public law." It is something to say that, after these years of strife, these unequal struggles, and the constant temptation to violence, the Confede rates have earned the right to call themselves honourable claimants for independence and worthy champions of a just cause. Their opponents have failed utterly and completely in winning respect for their motives or their actions. Their conduct has been distinguished by traits unbecoming savage communities and utterly unbearable among civilised States. It is to the lasting honour of the Confede rates that their course has been marked by no such unworthy events, and there is no reason to gainsay the justice of their appeal when they, in confidence and faith, "commit their cause"to the enlightened judgment of the world, to the sober reflections of their adversaries themselves, and to the solemn and righteous arbitrament of HEAVEN." The project of embanking the Thames is one of the most important of the various schemes for improving and adorning the metropolis. It has been talked of so long that it has come to be looked on in many quarters as almost a Utopian vision, and the public were fain to content themselves with the prospect of still retaining our noble river as an insalubrious and unsavoury highway for traffic, instead of being, as it might be, the source of health and comfort to the passer-by. The air blowing across pure running water is as fresh and healthful as the vapours arising from foul water is injurious and obnoxious. We had some years ago so strong a lesson on this point that it startled even our apathetic Legislature, and sent the members hurry ing from their committee rooms. Of what avail was it that they should carry on their delibera tions in Mr. BARRY'S gorgeous and costly structure, when all the ingenuity of the architect could not render its ornamented walls impervious to the noxious vapours arising from Old Father Thames ? The consequences of the unwholesome effluvia to those employed daily on its banks or in its naviga tion were more .serious, and had the evil reached its height in a cholera year the results might have been frightful. As it was, the question of what was to be done with the Thames rose into imme diate prominence, and every one had some scheme or device for ameliorating its condition. Happily the great main drainage scheme has done good service since that time, by diverting the sewage of the metropolis. It is this scheme that has directly hastened the carrying out of the long talked of em. bankment, for the inconvenience of constructing a low level sewer under the busy and crowded high ways north of the Thames was so great and so obvious that the idea of an embankment at once suggested itself to the Board of Works. They saw that by this plan they would not only carry out a great public want and provide a much needed thoroughfare, but they would have the opportunity of completing their drainage scheme without causing any inconvenience or interfering in any way with the vast traffic of the metropolis. They therefore submitted their views on the matter to Mr. Cowpen, who brought the necessary Bill before Parliament, and the great work was set in hand. It is, in fact, only marvellous how a wealthy and energetic reople like ourselves, possessed, too, of such engineering skill, can so long have de.. lured such a necessary reform, Whether we con sider the value of purifying the river—the importance of relieving the traffic—or the orna ment which the Embankment will be to the Metropolis, we must feel some surprise that it was not set about before. The unhealthy vapours, the dismal mud-banks, the wretched little piers which supply our vast steamer traffic, and the mighty stream of life and business daily rushing and chafing along Fleetastreet and Cheap side have all been borne with the constitutional patience of Englishmen under evils of gradual growth and venerable antiquity. If we could obtain an accurate history of the loss of time and temper, the injury to business, the annoyance and inconvenience occasioned by one week's stoppage s and delays in the Poultry during the busy tim e of the year, we should probably stand aghast at the aggregate of mischief during the last twenty years, There Ina no valid or actual reason why the work should not have been done long ago. Certainly we were not waiting for money or means, for financial credit or for engineering skill. The covetousness of proprietors has had something to do with the delay, but the active spirit with which the metropolitan railways are being carried forward leaves no loom for enCil impediments. If a private speculation can be car ried on in face of opposition, surely a great national undertaking for the benefit of the many need not stand still to suit the whims or wishes of a few. For the Embankment will undoubtedly be a public advan. cage. It will profit both poor and rich ; both alike will gain a pleasant highway for recreation, and will have the immense advantage of purer air and water, besides the relief to the over-crowded streets. Ac= cordingly, after so many delays and difficulties, the great work is now begun in earnest, and on Wed nesday afternoon the foundation stone was laid at Westminster, opposite the Board of Control, and the Thames Embankment fairly inaugurated. There wore present at the interesting ceremony the First Commissioner of Works, the late Commis• sioner, the Chairman of the Metropolitan Board, the engineers and contractors engaged, and many others. The scene was a striking one; and when Mr. TUWAITES declared the first stone duly laid, and the answering cheer rose up from the surrounding spec tators, to be caught up by the workmen and navvies, in the yard, it was no wonder that more than one artist strove to catch its prominent features. For the work is no mere ephemeral triumph of the day, no building which, however grand or costly, is merely a matter of speculative profit, but it is to be one of those creations of art and science which is to carry down the fame of a nation from one generation to another. Even as the old water gate, which is to form part of it, has survived all the other traces of the splendour of Buckingham House, and has outworn dynasties, so the Thames Embankment may present its noble frontage to the river when the present boundaries of Europe and America are matters of the past. Stretching from the old City Cathedral to the grand Gothic Abbey at Westminster, it links the past and the present, and if no skill of modern times can rival those venerable structures, the magnificent high way which is to unite the two will at least testify to all succeeding time that the present generation of Englishmen have inherited something of the genius, the daring, and the energy of their fathers. BANK OF FRANCE. (REITTER'S EXPRESS.) PARIS, July 21. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous accounts : JULY 21. JULY H. DR. f. c. f. c. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000 Profits in addition toCapital (Art. 8 law June 9,1857) 5,069,532 49 5,050,668 93 Reserve in tho Bank and its branches Reserve in landed property 4,000,000 4,000,003 Notes in circulation 788,378,725 792,819,275 Bank notes to order and re- ceipts payable at sight 5,909,290 56 5,376,404 44 Treasury ace. cur. creditor 60,496,245 97 58,430,429 98 Current accounts—Paris 113,792,771 18 131,889 202 73 Do. branch-banks 21,489,49 20,352,280 Dividends payable Discounts and sundry interests 4,417,058 59 3,583,344 57 Re-discounts of the last six months 2,588,735 17 2,588,735 17 Sundries 1,234,491,432 40 1,258,418,650 63 CR. Cash in hand and branch banks 269,810,253 27 266,890,961 30 Commercial bills overdue 3,225,228 27 473,531 44 Commercial bills discouLted not yet due ,...333,432,249 11 354,078,822 86 Do. branch-bank5....307,867,104 313,108,624 Advances on deposits of bullion . Do. branch-banks 3,338,100 3,4;4,800 Advances on Frenchpublic securities .. Do, branch-banks 9,678,650 9,571,0 Advance on railway shares and debentures .. 28,538,600 29,439,700 Do. branch-banks.... 18,853,200 19,088,500 Advances on Credit Fon cier Bonds 350.600 362,000 Do.branch-banks.... 365,900 382,700 Advances to the State (Conven. June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000 Govt. Stock Reserve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 Do. disposable Rentes inamobilisees (Law June 9, 1857) . . Hotel and furniture of the Bank Landed property, branches Expenses of management 505,311 03 113,418 26 Sundries 3,821,572 67 2,504,902 17 1,234,494,432 40 1,258,418,650 63 Certified by the Honorary Vice-President of the Council of State, Governor of the Bank, _ AD. VrITRIC. ETON COLLEGE.—The examination of candidates for the foundation commenced yesterday morning at 7 o'clock, the posers having arrived at the college on the previeus day. Tne following was the order of examination : —From 7 till 9 o'clock Latin translation; half past 10 till half past 12, Latin composition; and from 3 till half past 4 arithmetic paper. To-day (Friday) the examination will proceed as follows :—From 7 till 9 Greek translation, and from 11 till half past 12 recond mathematical paper for boys of 13 years old and upwards. The candidates, numbering it is understood upwards of 70, are allowed to use a dic tionary, gradus, Greek lexicon, and grammars for every paper but the first. At the election of 2 .860 it was agreed that a certain amount of mathematical knowledge should be required from all candidates in proportion to their ages, For this purpose a general paper is now set, which includes ordinary arithmetic, algebra up to quadratic equations, and the first three books of Euclid. The examination concludes to-day, and the result will probably be made known on Mon day. The election regatta takes place to-morrow. THE NEW HOTEL AT BRIGHTON.—The Grand Hotel at Brighton is now completed, and tomor row the doors of tt.e splendid establishment will be thrown open for the reception of visitors. The new building is situate in the King's-road, and commands one of the best views of the sea to be found in this very popular watering place. It is in the Italian style of architecture, admirably finished both within and without. The struc'ure is nine stories in height, and has elegantly shaped balconies along the entire front of the windows. The interior of the build ing is remarkable for the abundant amount of apace which has been devoted to every department; and all the new principles of ventilation seem to have been skilfully followed. All the usual requisites of coffee room, library, reading room, biliard and smoking rooms, are well arranged; and on the ground door there are two tastefully decorated con servatories, together with a ladies' coffee room, which latter has all the character of a drawing room in a private man sion. The coffee room is without doubt one of the most elegantly decorated apartments ever seen, and although gilding enters largely into the ornamentation, yet the other colours are so relatively blended, that the effect is everything that could be wished. The hotel contains 260 rooms, and on each floor both hot and cold baths have been provided, a " lift" also renders the ascending of the stairs by a visitor needless, and he has only to take his seat in a very pretty little room on the ground floor and forthwith he is raised to the storey upon which his room is situate. The charges are extremely moderate—so moderate, indeed, that any person can avail himself of the advantages of the Grand Hotel, as the charge for bedrooms ranges from 2s 6d to 21s. The direc tors have determined to leave nothing undone that can conduce to the comfort of the public, and it is to be hoped that their exertions will meet with that success which their spirit, enterprise, and large outlay entitles them to. EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY. —The Elgin Courant records the death, under very melancholy circumstances, of Miss Margaret Walker, resieing with her brother, who is schoolmaster at Tulloch, in Strathtay, in the parish of Logierait, Perthshire. "Mr Walker, on Sunday week, went to church as usual, a dis tance of about three miles, and on returning he found that his sister had left home without leaving any message as to where she had gone. He took no particular notice of this, as Miss Walker was in the habit of occasionally visiting a friend that resided a few miles distant, with whom she once stayed all night. Little was thought about her absence un til Monday night, when David M'Naughton, gamekeeper, Pitnacree, found her clothes about two miles from the schoolhouse, folded and laid up in a most regular manner. It appears she was seen by two men on Sabbath night, about an hour after she left her brother's house, in a state of nudity ; yet, strange to say, these men gave no alarm. On Monday night the friends of the young woman commenced an active search, which was continued in vain until Wednesday night, when tho body was found among the hills, 10 miles from the house, lifeless and still naked. By postmortem examination, inflammation of long examination m s t a nce s w standing was discovered in the back portion of the brain, w aB h : i_ch Di r e e d su f l r t o e m d in her re m , e w la h n il c e h w ol circumstances there is no doubt, had led to the extraordinary verdict of the medical men who made the post-mortem in a state of ' • wandering d d e e r a i t n h g . insanity ; but we believe they were of opinion that she had recovered her senses before death—a circum stance which makes the case still more lamentable. Miss Walker was a most intelligent, quiet, inoffensive, and kind hearted young woman, in her twenty-third year, and was a geueral favourite with all who knew her,..' THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JCLY 22, 1864. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [BEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] SPAIN. MADRID, JULY 21. The Noticias publishes a despatch from La Granj a, stating that the King of Spain will set out for France on the 10th, instead of the 15th, of August, so as to return on the 25th August. FRANCE. BOURSE, July 21.—The market has been very dnll,•but up to the present time there has been but trifling variation in prices. Threes, for the Account, after having been done at 66f. 30c., are now un• varied at 66f. 25c. Mobilier, after having toughed 1,003 f. 25c., have receded to 1,003 f. 75f. Railway Market quiet, but firm. The market became heavier towards the close, and left 41 per Cents .. 94 50 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents ...... 66 25 Do. end month.... 66 20 Credit Mobilier.... 090 Do. end month.... 091 25 Bank Shares .. Credit Foncier Roman .. 75 125 RAIL ; off as follows : Italian Loan 6B 20 Do. end month 6B 15 Ditto Threes — New Mexican Russian Austrian - OM. Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred - PAYS. Cash. Account. 87.5 87 2 60 Orleans • I • Northern ........ 978 75 , , 9EO Lyons and Mediterranean 900 .. 900 New ditto Southern 640 .. 641 25 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Letr•bard ...... North of Spain ..... Saragossa . ........ 522 50 .. 525 Ditto to Barcelona .... 250 .. 250 TEE BOMBAY MAIL. LITERATURE, Mr, Anthony Trollope's New Work, The Small House at Ellington. By Anthony Trollops. Two Vols. Illustrated by J. E. Millais, R. A. Elect. Smith, Elder and Co. For en easy-going story-teller, commend us to ' Anthony Trollope. Although it seems to us, com paratively speaking, but a very few years since he first began writing his novels—how many of them, to be sure, he has since then contributed to our imaginative literature ! To write hn imaginative narrative appears for him to be about as facile a pastime, about as pleasant to himself white penning it, as to his reader while skimming it afterwards rapidly with eager eyes and a flying paper-knife— to be for him about as facile and pleasant a pas time as it might be to any ordinary adept in the social art of table-talk to rattle off any given quantity of anecdotes and bon-mots, while cracking a dish of filberts after dinner cum grano salt's, sipping, the while, at intervals the ruby coloured and white-bubbling contents of a magnum of old-crusted ! With regard to our author, it is especially noticeable upon opening any one of his fictions—and it matters nothing to us which of them may be turned to, hap-hazard, with a view to testing by an examination of it the accuracy of this our remark—it is especially noticeable about him at the very outset of any one of his novels, in his mere manner as a narrator, that there is no evidence of th© smallest kind of anything at all discernible there in the opening chapters in the way of prepa ration. It is with him as it is with an artist, who— taking up his brush in front of a blank canvass — begins at once unhesitatingly sketching in his de sign, colouring it as he goes on, never once, so far as we can judge, altering his intentions, modifying nothing, slurring over nothing, not a line, not a hue—leaving everything he does, just precisely as he does it, and yet somehow or another, by a happy instinct, as it would seem, producing a capital picture in the end, and a picture worth studying. Whether all this be the result, in his instance, of a carefully acouired mastery of the ars celare colon, or whether it simply arises from a constitutional aptitude for the telling, off-hand, of any number or variety of fictitious incidents just as they come into his head —certain it is that he has a way with him in the relating of a story as quietly alluring, or enticing, of its kind, as well could be. He begins as it were sotto voce. He never, as we might say, startles one into attention. He recounts what he Las to acquaint us with, with the agreeable manner of an accom plished conversationalist. While his narrative has about it, always, the delightful fluency of a veritable improvisation—he improvises with, in his very bearing, all the amiable self-possession of an Eng lish Gentleman—not the least in the world after the fashion of your Italian improvisatore, with flashing eyes, distracted accents, end excited gesti culation. Reading any one of his books we are con. jured at onceout of the region of the Sensationalists, We breathe a calmer atmosphere. Wa are in the drawing-rooms or on the lawn—playing croquet, it may be, or dancing quadrilles with people often very much like ourselves, whether in their own nature or in their surroundings. Never, perhaps, has any other novelist, from the days of Apuleius to the days of Bulwer-Lytton, made so much of so little (in the way of a theme) as Anthony Trollope. Several successive pages, for example, he will fill with the merest prattling small-talk in the way of anyday or of everyday conversation not a sparkle of wit in it, not a tone of eloquence, not a flavour of originality—yet so true to reality, s© true to life, so true to human nature in every syllable, that we read it with delight and remember it with satisfaction, In respect to his characters, again, there is not one amongst them that we can regard in any particular as a paragon. Not even our oldest nay—almost we had said—dearest friend amongst them all, that good, simple. minded, wholly unworldly, thoroughly unsophisti eated Warden! But—with their little perversities, odditi s, whimsicalities—what characters they are, moreover, particularly the better sort of them! Facile princeps among them—incomparably the greatest of all Mr. Anthony Trollopc '3 creations—Archdeacon Grantley I Then too, that dreadfulbut inexpressibly ridiculous personage Mrs. Proudie—that portentous Female Bishop, who has so unmistakeably taken into her own use not alone her husband's prunella apron, but the very black broad cloth raiment under neath it which he, and he only, of course, ought ever to have donned ! Shall we ever have done laughingat her ? Most assured not—so long as we cani recall to mind her Nicholas Rigby•like " harsh voice and arrogant manner," so long as we can contrive to note her very unfeminine width of stride, so to speak, when out and about upon her pro-episcopal visitations—so long, in fact, as we can contrive to preserve the faintest recollection of her preposterous mode of illustrating anew in the old cathedral town the truth of Lord Byron's im mortal couplet, that couplet asking after the manner of Martinus Scriblerus— By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have re ceived our private correspondence and files of papers from Calcutta to June 13 and Bombay June 23. Intelligence had been received in Calcutta, by Simla, of a battle having been fought in in which the Ameer was victorious. 2,000 ar telegraph , reported to have been killed on each side. The following extracts are from the Overland summary of the Bombay Gazette : " An uneasy fee,ing has prevailed on the North. Eastern frontier, since the return of the Bhootan Mission, expectation of aggressions by the Bhoo tainessin,eo. They are said to be assembling at a place not from julpigaree, and that the Sooba of Dabi fr n a oe teis collecting supplies there. The B hoo tanese have, moreover, consulted their priests and oracles as to a favourable time for commencing proceedings; but the latter are unfavourable to an invasion of British territory, and have sternly for bidden it. If attacked, however, by the British within their own borders, then the Bhootanese are promised by their oracles a series of triumphant victories. " Sir Sohn Lawrence has declared himself op posed, for military reasons, to the extension of the Sein de Railway to ?dooltan, and favourably inclined towards the maintenance of an Indus flotilla. " In the case of Mahomed Sooffee, the chief of the rebels who were recently tried and convicted of high treason at Umballah, in the Upper Provinces, Sir Herbert Ed wardes has, in addition to conflrnting the sentence of death passed upon him by the Ses sions Judge, directed that his body be burnt after execution, as was done in the ease of the murder of the late Major Me.ckeeon, a former Commissioner on the Punjab. "Intelligence has been received from the Punjab that the Nawab of Bhawulpore has murdered his uncle,and that the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Robert Montgomery, has proposed to the Supreme Govern ment to take over the management of the Nawab's territory, the usual Political Agents being appointed to reside there. "The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Candia, Capt. Castle, which suffered so severely in the cyclone off Socotra on the 29th April last, has reached Calcutta in safety. " The latest advices from Affghanistan are to the effect that Sirdur Mahomed Utzul Khan, the eldest brother of the Ameer of Cabool, has usurped the title of Ameer, in which he is aided and abetted by the Khan of Bukhara; and he has threatened to send an army against Cabool, which is about to start for Bameean. The Ameer de facto, if not de jure, Shere Mahomed Khan, seems to entertain no tears ES to the result of an appeal to arms, and maintains a bolder front and more defiant tone than ever, since the defeat and flight of his second brother, Mahomed Auzin Khan, who is now at Rawul Pindee, in the Punjab, awaiting an interview with the Lieutenant - General of that province. " Dr. Livingstone, the renowned African traveller and missionary, arrived at Bombay in his little river steamer the Lady Isr,yassa, from Zanzibar, on the 14th inst., having left that port on the Ist idem. Immediately on his arrival Dr. Livingstone started for Paunchgunnee, via Poona, with despatches for his Excellency Sir Bartle Frere, He has since re turned to Bombay. MAREE T S.—This Day MARK-LANE. re ceived fresh up to our market to-day. , Generally speaking Only a moderate supply . of home-grown wheat was the trade was quiet. 'Nevertheless, Monday's prices were steadily supported. The supply of foreign wheat on the stands was m oderatel y large. The transactions in most descriptions were of limited extent, yet prices ruled firm. Floating cargoes of grain steadily supported previous rates. Barley, the supply of which on sale was sma ll, ruled firm, with an upward tendency in prices. In malt about an average business was transacted, on former terms. The supply of oats on sale was large. Most descriptions 'were in fair average request, and prices ru led firm. a nd both articles hilly supported previous ra t es . The flour trade was steady, a t late quotation s. B ea ns and peas we in li m i te d su pply, ARltlvias THIS VicElt• Wheat Ba r l ey. ma lt Oats. Flout. English....- 480 ...... 1,270 1 CO 14 , 0 1ri5h.......... _ 3,T 0 • - __ tenrolt,rn...• .. -- 1 31,300 160 ski, Do ........ 8 ,910 3,200 ~- ............• NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The suPPV Of meat on salo is moderately good, and the traede is dull, as follows : Per 81b. by the carcase. lid a d s dad Inferior beef .. 2 10 3 2 Isliddlingmutton 4 2 4 4 Middling. do. .. 3 4 3 8 Prime do ....... 4 6 4 8 Frime large d o . 3 1 0 4 0 V e a1........... 3 6 4 4 Do. small do.. 2 Small pork .... 3 10 4 6 Largo pork .... 4 4 , 32 3 6 Lamb ..... ... 50 6 0 Inferior mutton, 3 8 4 0 0 BOROUGH HOP. The amounts from the plautat.ons are not favourable, owing to the want of rain experienced in most districts. The supply of hops on sale is very small, and the trade rules firm, at rather higher prices for fine samples, SUGAR—OnIy COLONIAL. TEA.—The public sales we re brou g ht to a termination yesterday with out any m aterial change as regards prices. limited transactions have been recorded in West India, and p r ices have been barely maintained, infe• rior descriptions being held at a decline of about 6d per cwt: In the refined market there has been a limited busi• ness at steady prices. COFFEE.—The demand for Plantation Ceylon has been steady, although prices have in several instances given slightly way; other descriptions remained without change of importance. RICE.—A fair amount of business has been done in East India, which has fully maintained previous values. TALLow.—The market has continued rather inactive, but quotations remain steady, P.Y.C. on the spot being 41s 3d, and last three months 43s per cwt, ILLNESS OF M R SOTHERON ESTCOURT. 117 e regret to announce that the health of Mr Sotheron Estcourt is in such a precarious state as to be a cause of serious anxiety to his friends—so precarious, indeed, as to render him unable to attend the funeral of his brother. The attack with which he was seised about three years ago (bleeding at the nose from the rupture of a bloodvesse]) has renewed itself, and for some days the right hon. gentleman has been confined to his house in London. The shock oc casioned by his brother's illness and death was probably'the cause. There is not, we are sure, a single person in the county who does not heartily wish for the right hon. gen tleman's speedy recovery.— Wiltshire Mirror. CRYSTAL PALACE, 'TIME SDAY.—ONE SHILLING DAY.—Admissions on payment, 5,800; ditto by season tioketF, 1,211. Total visitors, 7,011, " But, Oh ye Lord of Ladies intellectual Inform us truly, have they not hen-pecked -you-all ?" Then, that horribly greasy, unctuous Rev. Mr. Slope ! Together with all those other reverends, very reverends, and right reverends thronging Mr. Trollope's clerical novels with black coats, as thickly as the red coated gentry crowd the the military fictions of Mr. Leger! A wonderful set of people they are, and almost all of them very interesting. Turning away, now, however, from the old familiar haunts of Barchester—forsaking here all thought of " The Warden," of " Framley Par sonage," of " Dr. Thorne,"—putting altogether out of view " Richmond Castle" and " Orley Farm"—let us accord to the last completed fiction from the hand of this ready-writer-turned-Novelist the welcome it unquestionably deserves. And as charmingly fluent life-like natural a story it is, as any he has yet dashed off with a flying pen, a pen winged like the pstaeus of Mercury. Having read it from month to month as it appeared originally in the pages of the gold-coloured Cornhill, we hail its appearance now collectively in these two largc•sized handsome volumes as that of a wellaknown favourite—" The Small House at Allington F' It has this peculiarity about it to begin with—that the heroine of the story is the most charming of all Mr. Anthony Trollope's heroines. Lily Dale—sweetest " rose in that rosebud garden of girls ! " A fair English maiden—a true woman—a perfect gentlewoman. And yet so shamefully treated throughout ! Not alone by the imaginary characters in the midst of whom she moves—bat by the author himself ! Is it not so ? An' wer this, anyone, who has read "The Small House at Aliington !" Has not Mr. Trollops given her two lovers—each one of whom is simply intolerable. One of these, the creature idolised by poor Lily Dale to the very last, jilts her disgracefully, like a would be fine gentleman, but an ingrained snob and scoundrel as he is—Adolphus Crosbio to wit ! Yet, perhaps, of these two lovers of Lily Dale — detestable though Crosbie's conduct in jilting her unquestionably is—of the two, the other one, the more faithful swain, is far and away the more intolerable ! Johnny Eames, our au thor evidently intends us to look upon very kindly all through the book. Johnny Eames, we are manifestly expected to accept as the better hero, as the hero, in fact, of the narra tive. He it is who trounces Adolphus Crosbie on the railway platform ! Johnny Eatnes it is who saves that good- nstnred, stout, vulgar, old Earl de Guest, fr ,m being gored to death by an in furiated bull in one of his own meadows down at Guestwick ! Yet—all through the book—Johnny Eamesis barely to be endured I All through the book he is little better than an under-bred nincompoop ! The utmost reach of dignity he attains at the very last, in our estimation, is little more than that appertaining to an overgrown hobbedeboy ! We hardly know when we like him the least—when at his best, or when at his worst ! When he is giving his rival, the West-end swell, a black eye—or when he is tucking his legs under the mahogany of his earl-patron ! The most intolerable of all, however, we ought surely to describe him as—where he is shown to us as one of the household in Mrs. Roper's Burton crescent Establishment—as the friend of that horrid Joseph Cradell, as the betrothed for some time, and eventually, too, the jitter of Amelia Roper, as the as sociate of those odious people, Mr. and Mrs.Lupex. to Altogether these lodging-house scenes at Mrs. sure upon the exterior surface, which enables this inse ct Roper's are deeply to be regretted as flaws of a walk against gravity with the back downwards upon c eiling li st most damaging and distorting description in what, and also to climb up smooth surfaces—feats whirac without them, much more nearly than it ever now our little little s fl u y f ' ll s ci g e re t at n e u nem b enemy, th f e spider, il ia una h ble w t e oa r, e are can hope to do, might have approached the character capture d during their airy excursionse houseflies, however, being enangled of an entire and perfect chrysolite among our later in the cunning traps laid for them by their stealthy fee • gems of imaginative literature. The love story Much as we are annoyed in England during certain seasons of Lily's elder sister, Bell, and Dra Crofts, the local by house-flies—when we consider what a pest they are la many ra foreign countries, a in S and Sout practitioner, must be pronounced, we are afraid, of Fnce we have reas ons to especi be ll t y hankf p ul ain for the the conaPs' h r ather slow Adolphus Crosbie, it is satisfacto:y r ative immunity we n from this ins c's irritat in g persecutions. to know, attains a full (to overflowing) measure of writingejoyof t Languedoc and some part of punishment, in winning the hand of the Lady Spain, Mr Spence says, "If I farmed these count ries I Alexandrioa—she whose father, by the way, though think I should manure four or five a cr e s ev ery year wi th owner of Courcy Castle, as Earl de Courcy is dead flies ;'' and in the olive districts in France the halls (though an E arl) an unconecionable (there's no bit a nts are obliged at every meal to keep a person ex other word for it) blackguard. There is a good deal pressly for the purpose of driving away these tiny tor of fun of a quiet kind about one Sir BAffla Buffle— m entors. ironically spoken of as Old Huffla Scuflh—down at Johnny Earae-s' office. There is abundance also of a more quiet, even as one may say, stately drollery in all thatis said about the seeming approach toe liaison between Mr. Plantagenet Palliser and the Lady E r Grieelda Dumbello, daughter, it will be remembered, - of that—as already intimated—prime favourite el I oars, among all Mr. Anthony Trollope's characters, the delightful Archdeacon I Excellent, moreover, as studies of character, are the limnings, hero, by Mr. Trollope, of the good old Squire, of his sister-in law, the mother of Bell and Lily, and of the Squire's heir and nephew, Captain Bernard Dale, the walking gentleman of the homely drama played out between the large and the small house at Allington I Happiest and best among all the minor humorous delineations being that of the character of good natured grumpy old Hopkins, the Squire'l head gardener! Altogether "The Small House at Allington" is a fictitious narrative as charmingly written as any yet penned by Mr. Anthony Trollope—the pictorial illustrations, from the pencil of Mr Millais—being (one or two them at least) not unworthy of the youngest of our Roya' Academicians. The Guardian Angel. By the author of "A Trap to Catch a Sunbeam.'' Two Vole. Huret and Blackett. A very pleasant and as invaluable art is that in culcated by this very charming writer—the art of happiness—of " making the best of it"—of recog nising the bright lining to the clouds that over shadow us, and of entrapping the golden sunbeams that ever and anon shine upon our path. There is enough of sorrow and of evil in the world assuredly, and there are more than enow of " goodnatured candid" friends who love to tell us " the truth," as they see it—that is in the most lugubrious and dis agreeable light imaginable ! There are enough, and more than enough, of such kind comforters abroad to make the rare visits of these "Guardian Angels," who bring an atmosphere of sunshine around them doubly welcome. The Guardian Angel of the story now laid before us is little Dora Elphick, a village sempstress, and here is her philosophy :—" I think it would be a strange thing if we turned all our pictures with the faces to the wall, and made up our dress on the wrong aide instead of the right ; but it is what most people do, I think. Igenerally take my troubles and look at them, and turn the best side out, and by hiding the ugly one almost forget it's got one/ Little Dora is not without her troubles; the secret of happiness being (as Mark Tapley so earnestly explained and exemplified) not an absence of troubles, but the power of overcoming them. When a heavy grief falls upon Dora—that is to say, the heavy grief of a novel heroine, a disappointment in love— she make© the best of it, she " takes her trouble and looks at it, and turns the best side outwards." She constitutes herself the Guardian Angel of the object of her affection, and, in the good fortune which she is the means of procuring for him, she finds her own reward. The story is very ingenious and very interesting, and contains a variety of attractive characters. Without betraying the secret of the tale, we must, however, withhold our commendation from the main statagem by which Dora elicits the truth of a hidden mystery—we mean her entrance into theTyrrel family—for that purpose. "Under the Rose" was the chivalrous motto that celebrated the sacred secresyof the domestic circle,and the uncivilised Arab is loth to betray the man of whose bread and salt he has partaken. Dora's artifice is too much akin to treachery to have our sympathy, but saving in this one incident the conduct and character of the heroine are most admirable and loveable throughout. The home life of the newly married inmates of the White Cottage is very naturally and gracefully described. The fair bride is the charming Geraldine, so ignorant of household duties and yet so jealous of any advice from her more experienced sister-ine law, Edith. Arthur Rivers is certainly a paragon of husbands, but his conduct to his sister is hasty and most unbrotherlike. However, we shall be telling too much if we dwell longer on the particular incidents of the story ; let us rather commend it as a bit of "sunshine" that the novel-reader will do wisely to " entrap." Tales about Animals, By Peter Parley. Twelfth Edition. One Vol., pp. 688, with 500 engrav ings. William Tegg. A book that has reached a.twelfth edition is inde pendent of the critic's eulogiums. Peter' Parley, moreover, is a name dear to the nursery and the play-room, and these tales of his about animals have the additional attraction of bearing his name. Some 500 spirited engravings of the various ani mals of the field and forest embellibh the little volume, and tha letterpress descriptions are very comprehensive and interesting, enlivened as much as possible by incidents and anecdotes. Our Common Insects. First Steps to Entomolgy. By Mrs. E. W. Cox. One Vol., pp. 120. Robert Hardwicke. 40 ) N (61111 - HER MAJESTY, OSBORNE, July 2 1 . The Queen drove yesterday in the grounds, both in the morning and afternoon, accompanied 11 Princess Louis of Hesse and the Princess lonise. Prince Louis of Hesse, attended by Captain V O Westerwellcr, went to Aldershot, and on his retur n after the field-day was met at Southampton by th e Princess Louis in the Fairy. Her Royal Highne ss was attended by Baroness de Grancy. The Duke of Argyll arrived and had the honour of dining with her Mojesty, Prince and Princes 3 Leiningen also dined at 03borne. Her Royal Highness Princess Helena continues to improve in every respect. The rush has entirely I disappeared. " Sermons," we know, are proverbially to be found "in stones," and good, most assuredly, may be recognised in everything. Dr. Watts is not the only philosopher who has sent his pupils to learn admonition from the ant and the bee, and however much that delightful example of the dace far niente the barrister Eugene may "object to the bees," on principle, those exemplars of industry will long hold their high position as popular favourites and encouragers. A similar term of the value of trifles and of the power of perseverance is enforced in , deed by the whole insect world. The common in sects of England, of which we see so much and know so little, are here very pleasantly introduced to our notice by Mrs. E. W. Cox, who has given in the few pages of this little voiumette a complete resume of the ways and wonders of this too much despised Lilliputian world. As an example of the lively sfyle in which the little work here under notice is penned, let us quote from the opening pages the following defence of entomology Few branches of Science have suffered as much from neglect and derision as Entomology has done. Does the minuteness of its objects give rise to this injustice? If so, we might as well assign to the physiologist (who carries on his microscopic studies among infinitesimal molecules) a position in the scientific wor ld inferior to his whose interest is confined to exiluming th e gigantic remains of extinct animals ; and with no i nvidious comparison we cannot doubt that pre-eminenc e is due to the former student . Or does the unsightly a pp earance of many insects prejudice us against a more familiar acquaintance with their kind ? It so, let us examine them more carefully, and doubtless we shall be repaid for our trouble and courage, by finding them possessed of external and internal beauties of colour and structure, not surpassed by any other part of the animal kingdom. If, however, we object to them on account of the injury they do to our property, pause we a moment to in quire whether the benefits we receive from them do not more than counterbalance the many evils of which they are the cause. Finally, when we remember the impor tant place in our universe assigned by the Almighty Creator to these minute beings, let ua inquire whether we are justified in treating them with neglect and indifference. fhe conclusion, doubtless, to which every thoughtful mind will arrive ie, that Entomology is by no means unworthy of elevation to a level with any of her sister sciences ; and for this reason we subjoin the following sketch, rather with the hope of inducing our readers to enlarge their inquiries as to the habits and n a t ure o f i nsec ts, than with that of supplying any new information on the subject. And as a specimen of the interesting character of the descriptions themselves, we w ill take at hazard one most appropriate for the day, a sketch, namely, of the house fly, which is now tormenting us : The wonderful adaptation of form to function which per vades the animal kingdom is in no instance more beauti fully exemplified than in the formation of the fly's leg which naturalists, after a series of researches, have found to consist ct two or three membraneous suckers, convex above and bellow beneath, constructed to cause atmospheric pres- The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince and Princess of Wales came to Marlborough House yesterday forenoon from the White Lodge, Richmond Park. The Prince of Wales presided at a meeting o f the Council of his Royal Highness, held at the Office of the Duchy of Cornwall, Buckingham-ga te ' St. James's Park. There were present Sir W. Dunbar, Keeper of the Privy Seal ; Sir W. J. Alexander, Attorney General; Lieut. General Knollys, Comptroller f the Household of his Royal Highness ; and ti le Lord Portman. Arrival of the Grand Duchess Mary of Russia Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Ma r l of Russia, accompanied by his Excellency tba Count Strogonoff and a numerous suite, arrived B Dover by the half-past three boat yesterday aft er* noon from Calais. His Excellency the Russian Ambassador, Ich ° left town early in the morning for Dover, Was ill waiting on the pier to receive the duchess. Shortly before four o'clock his excellency O P ' ducted tier Imperial Highness and suite to the trein i ! her Imperial Highness and suite occupying BO a saloon carriages, and being attended by the etiP e ' rintendent Mr. Knight. The train arrived At the Charing-cross station about six o'clock, fr °lll whence her Imperial Highness, accompanied by Baron Brunnow, proceeded to Claridge's ib te i i Brook-street, where her Imperial Highness vu' r stay for a Jew days previous to her departur e f° Torquay, where it is expected her Imperial WO' ness will stay fora few months. His Excellency the Ambassador of France vg' ll leave Albert Gate House on or about Thursday no %t f ,1 r Paris. His Escelleney the Minister for the NetherJana° and Madame Van de Weyer and family left Grosvenor' square yesterday for New Lodge, Windsor Forest. The Marquis and Marchioness of Carmarthen have left town for the season. The Esrl and Countess of Dartmouth bar ) arrived at their residence in Grosvenor-square fro Continent. The Countess Cowper is entertaining a Sele ct party at Panshanger, Herts. The Eirl and Countess of Fife and Lady A nil° Duff have left town for their seat in Scotland. The Earl and Countess of Morley will leave town early next week for their seat, North I\lolton, Devott. The Countess of Caiedon has left town for the season. Viscount and Viscountess Ingestre have left t° for their seat, lngestre Hall, Staffordshire. left Viscount and Viscountess Somerton hav e town for their seat, Madehurst Lodge, Arundel, Sussex. Lord and Lady Foley will leave town to.cleY ° a continental tour. left Lord Willoughby de Broke and family have • town for the season. DEATH OF CHERUBIM'S WIDOW AT ICI O f :. ONE I—Madame Cherubini, widow of the great cot:W s- sr '. has just died in Neuilly. She was in her ninety-firs t 5 1 - 0 The small body of friends which accompanied her re° to the grave was headed by M. Auber. LAUNCH OF A CUNARD STEAMER.—On Wea t day afternoon an iron screw steamer, intende d for ,vo the Cunard North American service, was launched from the building yard of Messrs Tod and Macgregor, Glaegaii; The new vessel, which has been named the Cuba, pr eset the tho following dimensions :—Length of keel and for era- ," 327 ft ; breadth of beam, moulded, 42ft ; depth moulded spar deck, 29ft. The tonnage is 2,382 by builder's rtlea all ;n re ; meat, The Cuba will be propelled by oscillating enP - p e f e of 650-horse power nominal, fitted with surface conde'larn and all the latest improvements. She will possess se n . f .- :t modation for 300 first-class passengers, and if it shou l ' eeth any time be deemed desirable to employ her as a trooPo'7o" she would be found capable of transporting 1,500 men. I ra rig will be similar to that usually adopted in the teu laa ,,, - ships, Cunningham's patent reefing topsails being e— s ,; played, and the masts being furnished with Sir Si la .x Harris's lightning conductor as applied to iron alliP s *, t duplicate ship to the Cuba, to be named the Sava', '8: present being built for the Cunard Company by IV ' ess- e . Thompson, of Govan, and is expected to be launched '- February, 1865. THE FORTIFICATIONS OF SFITHEAD.—It originally proposed by the Defence Commissio ver " that five forts should be constructed for the defence of S p it ° head, and the positions chosen for these were the O ra. ; Sand, No Man's Land, the Spit P o i n t, a t a point ° B e el ' , mediate between the fort on th e H orse S an d and F° rt ais Island, and on the Stu r b r id ge . It was , however' ; ° s; covered that a proper f oun d a ti on cou ld no t be obtai ned O f the last-named shoal, and a select committee, consiet il l 3. Admiral Milne, Captain R. S. Hewlett, R.N., Co lone, W. Gordon, E„E., Colonel C. V. Cockburn, R.A. C°1 1(1 11. D. Harness, R.E., Captain J. Bythesea, a be t James Ferguseon, Esq., was appointed to recomeaenn ° tie alteration should be made in the original plan of the c°-fje m i sa i o ners consequent upon the abandonment of the W-ps, on the Sturbridge. The committee made their report Y-0 terday. They unanimously recommend that a workebatgloe be constructed on the Spitbank, in a position ab out yards to the south-west of the point on which it Wa s t. ginally proposed by the Defence Commission to erect 0. Such a work, the committ ee cons id e r, would,. in 001).lu lici e lc ia with the batteries at F or t Monckton, bear immediately tiro the anchorage of Spithead, and would also co-operate 17;iii the works on th e H or se Sand and No Man's Lan d ' ti t tie with the Blockhouse Point and Southsea batterieei 113 defence respectively at the outer channel to Spithead of the inner channel to Portsmouth harbour, A sad FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT ON TIIE TAMAR." - " 4- accident occurred on Wednesday on the Tenla r9 o r which a mother and her ch i l d was drowned. The Veltig-fao s t eame r went up the river to the Weir Head %gir t ' 00 children and friends of the Wycliffe Sunday school• see' had, unknown it is sai d to the captain, one o f her w ed following astern , A boat containing a young manman rt e i , Coombes, his wife and child, and a female friend, w as ' ife st; trig up the river, and Coombes, in spite of a warning a boy connected with the steamer, who was in her oat' fastened his craft to that of the steamer. When no r ( 11 0 wellham Rock, the river being narrow and tortuellaii' the steamer made a sharp turn, and Coombes's Welt, 110 t Otter ethe steered exactly in her wake, received the swel l et l broadside, shipped a wave, filled and sank. The hte a.-- d •f• soon as possible stopped and backed ; and, after se w° r e fer' - : culty, the young man Coombes and his female f r iend ;to red to were got on board the steamer's boat. AU 6°.°l : 6 ,B er° discover the poor man's wife and child, however' 1,00 unavailing —they had sunk to rise no more. Several -ecee were soon on th e spo t, an d th e b o dy of Mrs Coor ab9 recovered during the evening.— Western _Morning Nis 0 ,11 FIVE CHILDREN BURIED ALIVE.--1: 1 r lO O, accident occurred on Monday in the Rue Cb4artl'torfa near the Ba rr i er du. Combat. During the thunders tee which burst over Paris some children took shelter frela c oe hail and rain against a wall which enclosed a piece of ' vs afe i ground. The wall, behind which a quanti t y of stonceariej tuaterjal had been piled up, suddenly gave wa y and b dee d live of the children beneath the ruins. Throe we re we re when got out, and the two others, though still alive, dangerously injured.